WORK OF WOMEN’S DIVISION

Southland Times, Issue 24163, 27 June 1940, Page 12

WORK OF WOMEN’S DIVISION

To The Editor Sir, —I have just read in your paper this morning a letter signed "W.D. Member” in which it is stated that F. Tothill is very much concerned whether the Women’s Division is still in existence. This I wish to deny. I am not concerned about the Women’s Division. I know it exists, for it is very much in evidence, as the cup and saucers and cakes could tell if they could only speak. I should just like to hear of their experiences. What I do object to is that no member of the Women’s Division can be a member without being a farmer’s wife or daughter. It was this division of which I asked if it existed.

But, sir, I am always ready for a little controversy, if you will t only allow me to express my views. “W.D. Member’s” letter speaks well for her branch, and I hope that it will continue, even if the money is collected from the men; but this report does not correspond with what I was told by one woman member whom I met in a shop. She told us that she was disgusted with the whole affair because there was too much talk and not enough work done. But you will find this sort of thing going on everywhere, even in Parliament. Let us now follow Britain and work 12 hours'a day. “For by their works shall ye know them.”—Yours, etc., F. TOTHILL. June 26, 1940.